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Richard Stallman spoke about the Free Software Movement, which campaigns for freedom so that computer users can cooperate to control their own computing activities. The Free Software Movement developed the GNU operating system, often erroneously referred to as Linux, specifically to establish these freedoms.

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Richard Stallman launched the development of the GNU operating system (see www.gnu.org) in 1984. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy it and redistribute it, as well as to make changes either large or small. The GNU/Linux system, basically the GNU operating system with Linux added, is used on tens of millions of computers today. Stallman has received the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer award, and the the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates.


This movie is part of the collection: Community Video

Director: Andrew John Hughes
Producer: Richard Stallman
Production Company: Manchester Free Software Group
Sponsor: BCS, IET
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Language: English
Keywords: free software; gnu; fsf;
Contact Information: Any questions to Tim Dobson <td(at)tdobson(dot)net> - tdobson.net

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 England & Wales

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Organising Bodies:

Manchester Free Software Group
(http://manchester.fsuk.org)

British Computer Society
(http://www.bcs.org)

The Institution of Engineering and Technology
(http://www.theiet.org)

Cameraman:
Andrew John Hughes
(http://fuseyism.com)